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A94561 To the memory of Thomas Heneage Esquire. An expostulation with death. 1642 (1642) Wing T1572; Thomason E149_10; ESTC R2571 591 1

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TO THE MEMORY OF THOMAS HENEAGE ESQUIRE An Expostulation with DEATH IS there no remedy must wise men dy As well as fooles hath perfect Piety No priviledge beyond Impiety Impartiall Death when will thy poysoned dart Learne to distinguish 'twixt the Nobler part Of living men and those whose vulgar breath Were farre a fitter sacrifice for death Why are the Stars immortall more than they They shine by night these glister night and day Starres borrow all their light but wisemen lend In each of them the world enjoyes a friend How is it then that senslesse creatures be Exempted from this generall tyranny And fixt within their Orbs survive to light So many Worthies to eternall night Is it because Stars are above the Spheere Wherein thou art allow'd to domineere Or is thy arme too short or wilt thou say The night revives them that depart by day That every Even beholds a dying Sun And every Morn a Resurrection Oh happy world if wise and vertuous men Since they must dy might dy to live agen After some houres like Sol or with the Moon After some dayes if that be thought too soon That like the fragrant flowers they might appear To beautifie the Earth but once a yeare Then happily we might our selves inure His death with some more patience to endure Whose grace and wisedome did trascend by farre The light and influence of the Morning Star But this vaine wish the Great and only Wise Controller of the Vniverse denies And 't will become us better reverently To mourne in silence rather than reply The Epitaph HEre lies interr'd under this fat all Stone A world of men epitomis'd in one London printed for Edward Blackmore 1642.